Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-03-10

grou County Register
By ELI d. AXE.
1RONTON. MISSOURI.
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PUBLIC PRINTER BENEDICT has been
confirmed by the Senate.
THE British Government is taking steps
to control the Canadian colonial fishery
matters.
SOME wealthy Rhode Island business
men are tired of prohi bition, and have
petitioned fer repeal of the Law.
THE Treasury Department has decided
that the wife of a Chinese laborer is per-
son whose original entry into this country
is prohibited by the Chinese Restriction
act.
An adverse report was agreed 'upon by
the Senate committee on the District of
Columbia on the nomination of James M.
Trotter for Recorder of Deeds of the Dis
trict.
JOHN WALTERS, an Irishman, OF Detroit,
Mich, aged one hundred and eight years,
and Auscey Demo Whela, a Spaniard OF
Dahlonega, Ga, aged one hundred and
six years, died on the I'd.
REPRESENTATIVES, of the American Base
Ball Association and of the League met
at Columbus, O., on the 4th and arranged
the schedule for the coming season so as
to avoid conflicting dates.
WILLIAM A WIKADAL, aged forty-sIx,
a resident of Canton, o., committed sui
eide at the Metropolitan Hotel, Boston, on
the morning of the 2Sth by cutting his
throat with pocket knife.
RIOTS have occurred in Sardinia, arising
out of the threatened failure of two work
ingmens savings banks. The Italian
Government has sent experts to examine
the books of the institutions.
II. G. Wilcox, of Bangor, n. Y, who was
hurt in the Vermont Central disaster, died
at Hartford, Vt, on the 2Sth, of erysipelas.
The total number of deaths resulting
from the accident is now thirty.
THE announcement from Washington
that the House had receded and passed
the Edmunds bill caused great excite
ment and rejoicing among vesselowners
and fishermen at Gloucester, Mass.
THE New Jersey Legislature succeeded
on the I'd in electing United States Sena-
tor. Rufus Blodgett, Democrat, was
elected by the votes of the Republicans
together with anti-Abbett Democrats.
MINISTER PESDLEToN expected to sail
from New York on the Sd for his post at
Berlin. This removes him from any
chance of appointment to a Cabinet Of
flee or to be an Interstate Commerce
Commissioner.
THE steamer Gaelic arrived at San Fran
cisco on the 2Sth from Hong Kong via
Honolulu and reports another outbreak of
lava from Mauna-Loa. All the craters
were in great activity when the steamer
left Honolulu.
THE recent Bulgarian outbreak was
more serious than at first reported. The
number of killed and wounded is said to
be very large. The government report s
claim the revolt is suppressed News
from other sources is contradictory.
THE Supreme Court of the State of New
York has ordered the reinstatement of
Second Assistant Chief McCabe, of the
New York City fire department, dis
missed for calling out large part of the
department to a. big fire on the 4th of July
last.
THE bill to prevent the employm ent of
convict and alien labor upon public works,
and of convict labor in the preparation of
materials for public works, passed by the
Senate on the 18th, had already passed
the House and is now in the hands of the
President.
RESOLUTION to submit to the electors
of the State the proposed Woman Suf-
frage amendment to the Constitution was
taken up and discussed in the Senate of
the Rhode Island General Assembly on
the LIST, and it was passed by vote of 2S
yeas to nays.
THE Secretary of War has approved the
recommendation of the chief of engineers
that the construction of the Baltimore &
Ohio bridge over the Arthur Kill be per-
mtted, provided the requirements of the
rule of the department of July 81, 1885, be
complied with.
SECRETARY MANNING, who has had under
consideration trip to England for the
benefit of his health, has decided not to
take such trip, as he is afraid it might
affect him in iuriously. He will remain in
Washington few days longer and then
go to New York.
THE President, on the I'd, approved the
Military Academy Appropriation bill, the
regular Pension Appropriation bill, the
act to organize the hospital relief corps of
the United States and the act IN regard
to the importation of mackerel during the
spawning season.
IN the session of Congress just closed
there were introduced in the Senate 8, 35
bills and he joint resolutions, and in the
House Al, $50 bills and 263 joint res olutions.
The calendars of the two houses sho w
1,1SS measures in the House aud $40 III the
Senate undisposed Of
TIRE remains of Edward kHehl, found
dead in bed at; Omaha, Neb, were sent to
Buffalo, N. Y, on the ID, in accordance
with his will to be cremated. His ashes
are to be placed il an urn and placed over
the bar OF a popular saloon in Omaha, in
compliance with his will.
THE Nat{onal ASS ociation of American